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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1886
Page
6
A narrative excerpt shows a professor’s admiring gaze during a tense moment as a student named Mina hesitantly reveals the name Helen Mrench. The professor recoils, questions propriety, then gently advises that she choose a different game while seeking her real English name.
In the Blue Ridge mountains a moonshining cave beside Dead Lake becomes the scene of a raid by U S revenue officers. After a false start the officers trigger a dynamite blast that collapses the cliff into the lake, apparently crushing the moonshiners. Ashcraft survives. the revenue man killed is not found and Ashcraft is later imprisoned for illicit distilling.
A vivid account blends an English observer's glimpse of Siena during Ramadan and the Ramadan ending Children's Festival with Arab youths in colorful dress, horse and dromedary parades, and fierce desert racing. It notes the boys’ wealth contrasts and the shared child-centered joy, then shifts to a miscellany of brief vignettes and anecdotes from various sources.
A clipped dialogue plays on notes and ear training with humor. A remark about China’s population and insane asylums appears as a non sequitur. The fragment hints at dialogue between characters Judy and M A, with playful banter on playing by note or ear.
A collage of jokes notes and brief items from Chicago Times Boston Courier and other papers presents quips about papers criminals clergymen and weddings. Included are gibes on paper ventures weather forecasting a mule bath anecdote and a San Antonio clerk’s joke about General Management.
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